Madeleine Wories is a printmaker and painter of Dutch
heritage. She was born in the Netherlands, raised in Costa Rica and Australia,
studied and worked in Montreal, Canada, and now makes her home in Southern
California. Her abstracts evolve through an ongoing dialogue with the
painting, acting and reacting to the process intuitively. In the spirit of
abstract expressionism, through colour, shape, line, texture, marks, gesture and
movement, she strives to find a balance between control and spontaneity where
intention and unpredictability converge. The paintings start with loose ideas,
which then evolve until they take on a life of their own. She is more
interested in the emotional response to the painting with the aim to evoke
rather than to depict. Rarely using traditional brushes, she prefers diverse
tools: scrapers of varying sizes, squeegees, palette knives, rollers, and
others. She works on paper, canvas and wood panels. She often draws inspiration
from the environment: landforms, geology, textures, seas, skies, wind and weather,
as well as from current events. Some abstracts, particularly those on paper,
may also display a structural quality as a result of her architectural
background. With a love for the ocean and of desolate wide open vistas, she also
creates landscapes and seascapes which are most often inspired by her coastal
location, by the remote desert locations of the American southwest, and by
memories of Australia. In these semi-abstract interpretive paintings she
endeavors to capture the essence and spirit of the scene, whether it be through
light, through movement of water and wind, or through the rawness and tones of
the earth.
Her work can be found in several corporate and
institutional collections, as well as in private collections. Her work has been
exhibited in the US, and internationally (Italy, Spain, Macedonia, Japan,
Canada, Hungary, Australia, Denmark and Germany)
